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Courgette Summer Holiday Seeds

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Courgette Summer Holiday Seeds - Irish Plants Direct
 
Looking for something thing a little different to grow? These colourful courgettes have large rounded yellow fruits that have a great flavour and texture use sliced or stuffed. 
The flowers are also edible. 
 
Seed Qty 
 
Sow April - May
Germination 7 - 10 days
Loam or sandy soil that's acidic or neutral
Harvest July - October
Companion Plants Beans, radish, beetroot, peas, parsley and peppers
Do not plant with potatoes
Harvest when the fruits are and 10cm long cutting with a sharp knife
A good source of vitamin A, C and E
Use for Baking, grilling, roasting and stir-frys
 
Apply a liquid fertiliser every two weeks when the first flowers appear. 
 
Sow indoors from March to May into  9cm pots sowing two seeds per pot on their side 2.5cm deep and cover with compost.  
Place on a sunny window sill, warm greenhouse or propagator to germinate. Remove the weakest plant leaving the stronger plant when the roots are visible at the bottom of the pot transplant into a larger pot to grow on again. Harden off when the danger of frost has passed and plant outside into a sunny spot, or grow on in the greenhouse or tunnel in a humus rich border or grow bag.  
 
Alternatively sow outside in May where they are to grow.
 
 
 

 

 

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